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Answer for the clue "Move unsteadily - a bad place to be left in ", 5 letters:
lurch

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lurch may refer to: Entertainment : Lurch (The Addams Family) , fictional butler in the 1960s American television series Lurch McDuck , fictional character, Scrooge McDuck's cousin, in the 1968 Disney story Lurch (EP) , released in 1990 by Steel Pole Bath ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sb's stomach lurches/tightens (= it suddenly feels tight because they are frightened ) ▪ Her stomach lurched at the thought of leaving Millfield. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB forward ▪ The chassis lurched forward ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lurch \Lurch\, v. t. To leave in the lurch; to cheat. [Obs.] Never deceive or lurch the sincere communicant. --South. To steal; to rob. [Obs.] And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland. --Shak.

Usage examples of lurch.

The man lurched back, one hand grasping, then pulling at the adze wedged in his shoulder.

The plastic aerator valves, surgically stitched in his chest, pulled and twisted and seemed to tear with each lurch of his body.

The guests at the Albergo Monte Gazza peered at one another over dinner through a gradually deepening gloom, enlivened by occasional lurches towards complete darkness.

He flung the door wide and lurched out, a sure target for Renz, who swung his gun toward Alker before The Shadow could stop him.

Feeling that she had failed, with a movement like the sudden lurch of a ship, Atene thrust at Ayesha, proposing to hurl her to destruction in the depths beneath.

The autocar lurched to a halt, and Holmes used the momentum to leap from the seat to the roadway.

The Biter lurched, as the helmsman pulled her round a point or so nearer the wind to keep the channel.

Shahin was blindfolding the camels as they lurched against him, crying with their hoarse, braying voices.

With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about.

Transcendental missionary lurched out of the crowd, her begging terminal extended in both hands, and Booly circled to the left.

It is a story, and for that reason, the effect of superlative cinematography must be broken as the body pulls itself to the door, lurches through, and stumbles to grasp at the edge of a chest-high wooden counter.

Polly took no notice as the carriage lurched along the dark lanes from Wood bridge to Dilling ham.

The drome was lurching towards her, podgy white fingers grasping the air.

She walked in a circle around Lady Sunshine, while Lady Sunshine watched her with a wary rotating eye, ready to lurch if the dryad attempted to move in her direction.

He tensed a little and his hand gripped the butt as Eggy lurched toward him.